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> This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. America: The Good
> Neighbor. Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to
> A remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a
> Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his
> trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most
> generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out
> of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars
and
> forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying
> even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France
> was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it
> up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of
> Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is
> the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American
> communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan
> and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged
> countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the
> decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those
> countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar
> build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane
> to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
> If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except
> Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider
> putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy,
> and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get
> automobiles. You talk about
> American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several
> times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans
> put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their
> draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets,
> and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting
> American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways
of
> France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the
> Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New
York
> Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still
> broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of
> other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else
> raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help
> even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it
> alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked
> around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when
> they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are
> gloating over their resent troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
> Stand proud, America!
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> > > This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the
> > > United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that
> the
> > > rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for
> everything,
> > and
> > > never even get a thank you for the things we do. I would hope that
> each
> > of
> > > you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that
> they
> > > should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent
to
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> > > every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read
> this.
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> > > I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT, SO SEND IT ON |
